Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-02
Rain and Crops.

erS OF ram Iell To-Day. III Is SILL clOHOy,
with indications of more rain. The wind
is west.
SANTA CRUZ, February 1st.-A fine shower
of rain fell this morning. The grain looks
well in this county. Many thousands of
| trees and vines are being planted.
SPANIsHrowN, February 1st.-A good
rain fell here this morning at 8 o'clock.
SAN JOSE. February 1st.-Up to noon
to-day .0S of an inch of rain had fallen.
| At Los Gatos and Saratoga the fall
amounted to 25 of an inch.
MERGED, February 1st. - The weather
changed last night and became cloudy
with variable breeZes. Light sprinkles of
rain have fallen, commencing at II this
| morning. The wind is now west, the ther-
mometer 600, with prospects favorable for
a heavy shower.
| GONZALES, February 1st.-The weather
continues cold, and generally wind from
| the north prevails. This morning it COM
menced raining in the foothills on either
side of the valley, and rained lightly the
| principal part of the day. 1t has been
| misting in the valley three or four times
during the day. 1t is cloudy tonight, and
| the north wind has ceased. We hope for
rain before morning. Business is stagnant,
and some farmers are waiting for rain be-
fore sowing grain.
VrsALIA, February 1st-It began raining
at GIG P. NJ. The weather is warm, and
seems to have settled down for general
| rain.
SANTA Rosa, February 1st-Orchard and
vineyard pruning is now being pushed.
| Many vineyards have already been pruned,
aud plowing has commenced.
| SALINAS, February 1st.-It commenced
| Il li,ht II
! intervals since. 1t is cloudy, and appear
ances are favorable for more rain.
| GRASS VALLEY, February lst.-A cold
rain has been falling here at intervals
throughout the day, and hail is at times
falling tonight. 1t is cold enough for
snow.
| Weather Bulletins.
! SAN Francisco, February 1st.-Weather
| bulletin for the month of January The
cyclonic area appearing off the Washington
| Territory coast during the month passed
to the east and southeast without extend
| ing down the coast. The rains of the
month have consequently been confined
mainly to Oregon and Washington Terri
tory, where they have been almost con-
stant Rain fell in Northern California in
| light, scattered showers on the 18th, 14th,
18th, oath and 9th. During the 18th, l9,h
| and Goth rain fell in considerable amounts
| over Northern California, and the only
| showers of the month occurred in Southern
| California on the 10Th. The temperature
| has been above the normal area during
| the month along the entire Pacific coast
| Departures from the normal area ap-
| proximately Washington Territory
40, Oregon and Northern California
| 80, Central California 20, and Southern
| California 25o North of California the
rainfall for January has been above the
normal, the average greatest excess being
at the mouth of the Columbia river, where
! it is 4 inches. From that point the excess
diminishes in all directions, becoming
one-half inch in northern and western
Washington Territory. and nothing in
southern Oregon. Throughout California
the rainfall has been markedly below the
normal, the average being only about one
| fourth of au average in the Sacramento
valley, and thence gradually diminishing
| toward the south to Los Angeles, where it
is only one-thirteenth of the average At
| San Diego only .0i Of an inch fell during
| the month.
SAN FRANc1sco, February lst-Indica-
NJ. February ID. California Scattered
tions for the "a hours commencing at A.
showers, followed by fair weather.
| Convention of viticulturists.
| SAN Fra Hcrsco, February 1st.-The San
francisco District Viticul;urai Convention
met at the Occidental Hotel to-day in
pursuance to a call made by Commissioner
! Charles A. Wetmore. The special object
| of the meeting was TO consider legislation
now pending in National and State legis-
| lative bodies affecting viticultural interests.
| The Greene spurious wine bill was it
dorsed. Mr.. Wetmore announced that
Randall's measure to reduce the tax on
fruit brandy would come before the COM
mittee in Congress tomorrow, and stated
that our Senator and Representatives
| should be instructed to oppose 1t. He also
spoke in opposition to the Coombs bill be-
| fore the Legislature. and said that it would
1 accomplish nothing if passed, as it does not
abolish adulterated wines.
| After along discussion on various meas
ures now pending before Congress and the
| State Legislature, the Committee on Reso-
| lutions made their report, They recon-
| mended certain amendments to Coomb's
| bill recently introduced in the Legislature
at Sacramento, the third section to be
amended to read as follows an the man.
ufacture of wine it shall not be lawful to
| introduce into must, or into the product
! after fermentation any poisonous substance
or ingredient injurious to the public
| health" Section is to be,amended so as
| to make the penalty for adulteration $3.50
| instead of 500, and also recommended
number of minor amendments. The Con-
vention then adjourned.
| Les Angeles Items.
Los ANGELES, February 1st.-The Couu-
| Gil to-day granted the franchise for a
double track cable railroad to NJ. L. Wicks
| and others.
An excursion of 300 persons in Pullman
cars. arrived from Kansas City tonight.
| A new station is to be established at the
| junction of the main line of the Southern
Pacific Company and the Newhall branch,
and will be about three miles north of the
present town of Newhall, to be called
| Sangus.
The Council to day resolved that it is the
| sense of the Council that any question of
allowing steam railway franchise along
| q street shall be left to two-thirds vote of
| the property owners on said street. The
| clerk was instructed TO notify our legisla-
| lators that this is done in opposition to
Motifs Senate bill No. 2, which provides
that City Councils may grant steam railway
| franchises without reference to the citizens
| The ordinance compelling saloons to
| close at midnight was killed in the Council
| to-day.
The Charity-street Cable Railway Com
pany proposed that if the Council grant
| the company franchise for fifty years for
single street cable track from the inter-
section of Charity and Seventh Streets
over and along Seventh street to the inter
section of Spring and Seventh streets,
thence along Spring street northerly to the
intersection of Spring and Main stree's
in front Of Temple block. the company
would pay into the City Treasury $4,000
in gold coin.
News reached the city to-day that oil we'll
| No 6, at Puente, belonging to Lacy & Row
land, had caught fire yesterday. The der
! rick, engine and other machinery were all
| burned. and the well itself destroyed. The
gas from the well caught fire from ian
| tern. Loss, SIS, 600
The business transacted at the United
States Land Office in this city during the
month of January was as follows: Twenty
| eight cash entries, covering 2,23Sl acres;
three desert land entries, 269 acres
FIVE final home entries, 54Sl acres
and one State selection, 40 acres
There were fled also 81 declary statements,
one coal land claim, and six timber sppli-
cations. One military bounty land war
! rant was located.
Chas. Rennor who owns half interest
| in restaurant at the corner Of Spriug ami